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New technology is also making it easier for Schneider to keep tabs on suppliers deep in its supply chain, Ms. Clayton said. Last year, Schneider used cloud-based demand planning software Kinaxis to pounce on a shortage before it affected production of the company’s industrial circuit breakers.

Investors who took a chance on a Kinaxis Inc., a cloud-based software company with a “secret sauce” for supply chain operations, have been richly rewarded since it went public a year ago, and many analysts believe the run isn’t over yet.

Kinaxis, which specializes in supply chain management software, emerged from its IPO the way firms are meant to — by delivering solid and consistent growth in both revenues and earnings. Along the way, the company has quietly added dozens of employees, giving it nearly 300 globally — including more than 200 in Kanata.

Users are more satisfied, the implementations are shorter and there is greater Return on Investment of solutions from Best-of-Breed solution providers—especially if the best-of-breed solution providers used are industry-specific. However, in the polling data in the APICS webinar, we found that over 70% of the respondents had deployed solutions from the ERP-expansionists.

A cross-listing is in the likely future for fast-growing Ottawa business software firm Kinaxis Inc., which went public on the TSX in June, 2014, and has a healthy analyst following here. The firm is eyeing the NASDAQ once its annualized revenues hit $100-million (U.S.), which could come as soon as this fall. “NASDAQ is a very viable option, especially with the multijurisdictional relationship,” says Kinaxis’ chief financial officer Richard Monkman.

Now the question isn’t whether Kinaxis will succeed, but how big its breakout will be. Analysts, customers and the company’s leaders compare Kinaxis to Salesforce.com, which upended business process software giants to take a place at the forefront of the never-ending drive to help companies improve efficiency. “We believe [Kinaxis] is one of the most compelling new enterprise technology companies to surface in years,” Cormark Securities analyst Richard Tse said recently.

When was the last time you saw really good marketing in this boooooring business of ours? Campaigns like Kinaxis‘ that produce brilliantly simple and quite funny brand messages for pretty dry products?

Mr. Moschopoulos says Schneider Electric SE of France, a company with 255 factories and 100 distribution centres, rolled out RapidResponse in several months and reduced its inventory by $200-million (U.S.). Arizona-based First Solar, a company with $3-billion in revenue, used RapidResponse to cut inventory by $100-million in six months.